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Author: | DrDark [ Sun Mar 27, 2016 2:43 am ] |
Post subject: | The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Do we now confidently know the lyrics for all the songs on the new album? If so, someone please post them to this thread and I'll add them to the sticky thread "Lyrics to All Albums and B-sides" for posterity. The Community Of Hope The Ministry Of Defence A Line In The Sand Chain Of Keys River Anacostia Near the Memorials To Vietnam And Lincoln The Orange Monkey Medicinals The Ministry Of Social Affairs The Wheel Dollar, Dollar |
Author: | Kuk91 [ Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:15 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
NOTE from mod DrDark: below are NOT the official lyrics. The official lyrics are here: http://www.thegardenforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=22539#p22539 01. "The Community Of Hope" (Washington, DC) Here's the Hope Six Demolition Project stretching down to Benning Road - a well-known "pathway of death", at least that's what I'm told and here's the one sit-down restaurant in Ward Seven. Nice. Okay, now this is just drug town, just zombies, but that's just life in The Community of Hope The Community of Hope The Community of Hope The Community of Hope, hope, hope, hope Here's the highway to death and destruction South Capitol is its name and the school just looks like shit-hole - does that look like a nice place? Here's the old mental institution, now the Homeland Security Base, and here's God's Deliverance Centre, and deli called M.L.K. in The Community of Hope The Community of Hope The Community of Hope The Community of Hope, hope, hope, hope They're gonna put a Walmart here (×8) 04. "Chain Of Keys" (Kosovo) Fifteen keys Fifteen keys are hang on chain The chain is joint The chain is joint and forms a ring The ring is in The ring is in a woman's hand She's walking on She's walking on the dusty ground The dusty ground's a dead-end track The neighbours won't be coming back Fifteen gardens overgrown, fifteen houses falling down... The woman's old The woman's old and dressed in black She keeps her hands She keeps her hands behind her back Imagine what Imagine what her eyes have seen We ask, but she We ask, but she won't let us in A key so simple and so small - how can it mean no chance at all? A key - a promise, or a wish; how can it mean such hopelessness? "A circle is broken", she says "A circle is broken", she says... 05. "River Anacostia" (Washington, DC) Oh my Anacostia do not sigh, do not weep Beneath the overpass your Savior's waiting patiently Walking on the water flowing with the poisons from the naval yards He's talking to the fallen reeds Saying "What will become of us?" What will become of us? Oh... Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water A small red sun makes way for night trails away like a tail light Is that Jesus on the water talking to the fallen trees? Saying "What will become of us?" What will become of us? Oh... Wade in the water, God's gonna trouble the water (×3) What will become if God's gonna trouble waters? (×3) Wade in the water, God's gonna trouble the water (×3) Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water 06. "Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln" (Washington, DC) All Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln (×4) At the refreshments stand a boy throws out his hands as if to feed the starlings, but really he throws nothing It's just to watch them jump See the people coming They moving over the grass to squeze into plastic chairs All Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln (×4) Three notes - a bugle call A black man in overalls arrives to empty the trash, hauls it to a metal hatch A doorway opens up to the underworld The boy throws empty hands and the starlings jump All Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln (×4) 07. "The Orange Monkey" (Afghanistan) A restlessness took hold my brain and questions I could not hold back An orange monkey on a chain on a bleak uneven track told me that to understand you must travel back time I took a plane to a foreign land and said, "I'll write down what I find" Beneath a mountain's jagged shelves cloaked with snow and shadows sheer plates tipped up upon themselves the pain of fifty million years and mules and goats were running wild A happy chaos carried on and old men and the young boys smiled and worked until the day was gone The packs of sandy-coloured dogs walked streets that looked like building sites but piles of rocks and dust and smog could not block out a different light When I returned I ran to meet the monkey, but his face had changed He stood before me on two feet The track was now a motorway 08. "Medicinals" (Washington, DC) I was walking thru the National Mall, thinking about medicinals, how they used to grow there When the ground was a marshland undisturbed by human hands, and I heard their voices: Sumac said "We're always here" Witch Hazel - "We're always here" Sassafras - "We're always here" Bluestem grasses always here I looked about, and what I see? Medicinals grow around me, rising from the gravel Sumac and the Witch Hazel Come to soothe our primal sores, come to soothe our troubles Sumac said "We're always here" Witch Hazel - "We're always here" Sassafras - "We're always here" Bluestem grass is always here But do you see that woman, sitting in the wheelchair? With her Redskins cap on backwards What's that she's singing? As from inside a paper wrapper she sips from a bottle a new painkiller for the native people 09. "The Ministry of Social Affairs" (Afghanistan) That's what they want, oh yeah, Money, honey (×4) See them sitting, in the rain As the sky is darkening Three lines of traffic, are edging past The ministry of social affairs At a junction on the ground an amputee and a pregnant hound Sit by the young men with withered arms As if death had already passed Through every alleyway, and left A million beggars silhouettes Near where the money changers sit By their locked glass cabinets What has happened, let's go and ask The ministry of social affairs Near where the money changers sit By their locked glass cabinets That's what they want, oh yeah, Money, honey (×6) 10. "The Wheel" (Kosovo) Revolving wheel of metal chairs Hung on chains, squealing Four little children flying out A blind man sings in Arabic Hey little children, don't disappear (I heard it was 28,000) Lost upon the revolving wheel (I heard it was 28,000) Now you see them, now you don't Children vanish at a vehicle Now you see them, now you don't Faces, limbs, a bouncing skull Hey little children, don't disappear (I heard it was 28,000) All that's left after a year (I heard it was 28,000) Faded face, trace of an ear (I heard it was 28,000) A tableau of the missing tied to the government building 8000 sun-bleached photographs Fading with the roses Hey little children, don't disappear (I heard it was 28,000) Lost upon the revolving wheel (I heard it was 28,000) All that's left after a year (I heard it was 28,000) Faded face, trace of an ear (I heard it was 28,000) And watch them fade out... 11. "Dollar, Dollar" (Afghanistan) A boy stares through the glass He's saying "dollar dollar" Three lines of traffic past We're trapped inside our car His voice says "dollar dollar" I turn to you to ask For something we could offer Three lines of traffic past We pull away so fast All my words get swallowed In the rear view glass A face pock-marked and hollow He's saying "dollar dollar" I can't look through or past They say "dollar dollar" A face pock-marked and hollow Staring from the glass "Homo Sappy Blues" (Washington, DC) Jaw and a leg bones, reconstructed skull On continents or oceans They died so young What God sent you, sent you from your cave? I need your wisdom Homo Sapiens Path of your migration Is marked upon a map Looking like a tattoo On a kid's forhead What God sent you, sent you from your cave? I need your wisdom If only for a day What God sent you? (x2) They dying young around here With a hunger in their guts And a taste for vodka Their friends' faces on their shirts Last year they killed one Just for his shoes Tell me what God sent you? I got the Homo Sappy Blues What God sent you? (×2) |
Author: | DrDark [ Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Thanks kuk. I've added them. Let me know when we get lyrics for The Ministry of Defence and A Line In The Sand and I'll add them as well. Is Homo Sappy Blues a confirmed B-side? |
Author: | Kuk91 [ Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:19 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
DrDark wrote: Is Homo Sappy Blues a confirmed B-side? No, but we do know lyrics for it. Japanese edition might end up with some bonus track(s). |
Author: | somme [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
NOTE from mod DrDark: below are NOT the official lyrics. The official lyrics are here: http://www.thegardenforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=22539#p22539 02. The Ministry of Defence This is the Ministry Of Defence The stairs and walls are All that’s left The mortar holes let Through the air Kids do the same thing Everywhere They’ve sprayed graffiti In Arabic And balanced sticks In human shit This is the Ministry Of Remains Fizzy drinks cans And magazines Broken glass A white ?? Syringes, razors A plastic spoon Human hair A kitchen light And the ghost of a girl Who runs and hides Scratched in the wall in Biro pen This how the World will end There’s the bus depot To the right Levelled like A building site Those are the children’s Cries from the dark These are the words Writ under the arch Scratched in the wall In biro pen This how the World will end |
Author: | somme [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
NOTE from mod DrDark: below are NOT the official lyrics. The official lyrics are here: http://www.thegardenforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=22539#p22539 03. “A Line in the Sand” How to stop the murdering? By now we should have learned If we don’t then we’re a sham Bad overwhelms the good Bad overwhelms the good Ooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh What I’ve seen? Yes, it’s changed how I see human kind I used to think that ? Though grace was made We could get something right We could get something right Enough is enough A line in the sand Seven or eight thousand people Killed by hand They stepped off the edge They did not step back If we have not learned By now Then we’re a sham When we first got to the camps Our supplies were not enough I saw a displaced family Eating a cold horses hoof Oh a cold horses hoof Ooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh We sent up tents Brought in water Airdrops were dispersed I saw people kill each other Just to get there first Oh just to get there first Enough is enough A line in the sand Seven or eight thousand people Killed by hand They stepped off the edge They did not step back If we have not learned By now Then we’re a sham What we did Why we did I make no excuse We got things wrong But I believe We also did some good What we did Why we did I make no excuse I believe we have a future To do something good Ooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Feel free to correct - I had to use her lyric sheet here to decipher what she was singing! lol) |
Author: | Kuk91 [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:31 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
somme wrote: Broken glass A white ?? "A white jawbone", I think. Thanks. |
Author: | head's_bullet [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
^ I thought I've heard "a white chalkboard", but also I've heard way too much the "white chalk hills...." sentence in this life lol the end of the sentence sounds like "bone" in fact (and fits that gloom scenario) |
Author: | DrDark [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Thanks guys. I've added the lyrics to the sticky thread. |
Author: | Kuk91 [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:26 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
DrDark wrote: Thanks guys. I've added the lyrics to the sticky thread. They added lyrics for the new songs: http://pj.deanr.co/song-lyrics/. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ "A Line in the Sand" How to stop the murdering? By now we should have learned – if we don’t then we’re sham, bad overwhelms the good. What I’ve seen – yes, it’s changed how I see humankind – I used to think progress was being made, that we could get something right. When we first got to the camp our supplies were not enough. I saw a displaced family eating a cold horse’s hoof. We set up tents, brought in water, air drops were dispersed. I saw people kill each other just to get there first. What we did? Why we did it? I make no excuse – we got things wrong, but we also did some good. I believe we have a future to do something good. Enough is enough. A line in the sand. Seven or eight thousand killed by hand. They stepped off the edge they did not step back. If we haven’t learnt by now then we’re a sham. |
Author: | DrDark [ Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Thanks. I've replaced our home-grown lyrics with the official ones in the sticky thread. I think it's important to get her use of italics in the lyrics correct. She seems to be using them when she's intentionally quoting someone (eg. Community of Hope). |
Author: | Black Hearted Love [ Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:55 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
sorry to boder, but isn't: "Is this the Ministry of Defence?" |
Author: | DrDark [ Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:19 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Black Hearted Love wrote: sorry to boder, but isn't: "Is this the Ministry of Defence?" The song's official title is "The Ministry of Defence". The first line in the song is "This is the Ministry of Defence" (as shown in the lyrics). Not sure what problem you're referring to? |
Author: | Black Hearted Love [ Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:37 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
my impression is that the first sentence is a question, not sure so I asked official lyrics are poems, but in songs she change something, for example: A Line in the Sand [...] Seven or eight thousand killed by hand. singing she add the word 'people' after 8000, probably to follow the sound of music. So I asked 'cause I'm not a native English speaker |
Author: | DrDark [ Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:25 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: The Hope Six Demolition Project lyrics |
Black Hearted Love wrote: my impression is that the first sentence is a question, not sure so I asked official lyrics are poems, but in songs she change something, for example: A Line in the Sand [...] Seven or eight thousand killed by hand. singing she add the word 'people' after 8000, probably to follow the sound of music. So I asked 'cause I'm not a native English speaker Ah, okay. There are more than a few instances where the official lyrics differ from what she actually sings. For the most part I believe the official lyrics we've shown are literally just that, the official lyrics as shown in the lyrics booklet or on the official web site. |
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